What is Intellectual Property?

My personal definition of "intellectual property" is different types of media and performing arts that belong to someone who designed that specific thing.
An experts definition of intellectual property is:  Intellectual property (IP) refers to the creations of the mind; inventions, literally and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
A few examples of intellectual property that I can see me using from my everyday life are textbooks, books, artwork like paintings, movies, photos and sculptures.
The concept of intellectual property can change by being shared as others use the ideas of it or base their own ideas of off the one someone else has created. In some cases it may be hard to determine if a persons intellectual property is actually there own or if they copied someone else's original idea. So it can be hard to determine if someones intellectual property is actually theirs as being their own idea at the beginning or if they just based it off of someone else's making it no the original.

Urvashi Presentation Reflection

1. My expectations prior to attending this presentation by Urvashi were that she would be sharing some of her personal stories with us and that the audience would be more informed of the LGBT community and what is currently happening.

2. The information was presented in an Auditorium in Atwood that seemed more relaxed and calm. The chairperson spoke for a quick introduction and then Urvashi came up and gave her presentation. A lot of the information she shared with us was new for me to hear I have never looked into the LGBT community or any current events that occur with this community. I learned a lot about the LGBT movement and what it takes to make things actually happen and see a difference for LGBT people.

3. Something that I did not know is that gay marriages are legal in 6 of the 50 states. I didn't know it was legal in any states at all.

4. Yes the speaker's personal, professional and academic background made her a good person for this topic. She knew what she was talking about since she has worked for fighting for LGBT rights and is involved in the LGBT community. She even had some personal stories of hers or others she has heard that help you see what things actually happen to people because of their orientation.

5. This presentation has given me some new information about the LGBT community and has informed me about challenging issues faced. I will be able to use some of this new information in my ALternative Viewpoints Paper.

6. Many people in the audience participated in asking Urvashi some questions I don't know for sure if any of the people were from our class.  But, the questions she answered she gave a understanding answer that was satisfying.

Google 101

During the google exercise we did in class I knew about the google scholar website I used it the week before in my English class so that wasn't new to me. But when searching in google I didn't know that if you add a plus sign it is like using AND OR in the other databases. This google exercise and learning new ways to search for information will help me with my research for the rest of the semester because I now know more ways to search for more on Homeless people. My opinion on google is still the same I used to use it all the time to start off with research projects and now that google scholar has recently been introduces I will use it more often. This will also help me in other class I am taking now and in the future. Knowing all the resources that there are online to find articles, newspapers, scholarly articles, etc. will help so you have many options to chose from not just the same ones I have been using for most of my life.

Personal Viewpoints Paper

Olivia Minor  

IM 204

Alternative Viewpoints Paper

           

            The homeless population that I would like to learn more about is especially families that have been kicked out of their homes and left jobless. I want to know how they survive with nothing left and no place to live. I am curious to where these families get money besides health care, food stamps and things like that. Where do they get the money from for everything else they need to live, especially with a family where there are multiple people to provide for.

            I am not all that familiar with homeless people or a family. I have seen the occasional people standing on the street trying to get money for you that look like they do live on the streets. I want to learn why most families become homeless do they loss their job, blow their money on things they can no longer afford and have gone in to debt. Because the homeless people on the streets are the ones that our money is going to. Our tax dollars and the money taken out of our checks to go to Medicare, Medicaid and healthcare if we are giving to them can’t we know why we have to give to them. I have never really read an article or anything on how most people become homeless besides losing their jobs but I want to know if there are other reasons than just one for the millions of people and families that are homeless.

            Most of the information I have gathered about homeless people are from seeing them in public, articles in newspapers about them, magazines and news shows. Each source gives different information on whether homeless families, students etc. Also, since I’ve done my research I have gained more knowledge about this population and I am looking forward to learning more and answering questions I still have about the homeless.

Research Reflection

So far with my research project I am lost with where we are supposed to be and everything so far. At the beginning I chose my vulnerable population to be homeless people which I would like to learn more about and how they survive on the streets but finding books and scholarly articles about it has been a struggle.

Blog Debate

I think that blogs are creditable source to use for information and research. If you look into a blog and see if there has been a lot of work put into it then it may be legit to use. Most blogs aren't filled with facts and information they are more about the authors personal viewpoints or opinion on whatever the blog is about. So I think that blogs are legit sources to use you just have to make sure you review the information on there knowing that some may not be true and that there will be personal opinion involved.

http://blog.endhomelessness.org/

This web address is from a blog about homeless people and their personal stories they have shared. It is from cities all over the US.

"About Homelessness." About Homelessness. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. <http://blog.endhomelessness.org/>.